The award was the latest in a series of honors for Tucker, who is working on his thesis research in the lab of Gregory Lewis, MS, PhD.

Other honors Tucker has received recently include:

2018 Orthopaedic Research Society International Section of Fracture Repair poster award, presented to Section of Fracture Repair members for their excellent research related to the fracture repair, facture healing, bone regeneration and trauma

2017-18 de facto co-adviser for team that won Capstone Design Conference Award (first among 67 teams) at Penn State Harrisburg Engineering

Tucker’s collaborators include Ed Fox and Spence Reid, among others. Originally from Holland, NY, Tucker completed his bachelor of science in biomedical engineering at Cornell in 2010 and is affiliate with the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State.

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